I have a generic laptop about 3 years old (www.qlilinux.com).
256 meg
18 gig Toshiba
Toshiba DVD-ROM
The install program does not see the cd. It will not boot from the cd.
First I used dd to make a floppy image. That didn't work so I followed the
directions in install.htm and used a windows machine to use rawwritewin. The
result is the same.
After loading I get a dialogue "I can't access a Mandrake-Linux Installation
disc in your CD-ROM drive (TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2302)". So even though the
install program recognizes the drive correctly it cannot access the drive.
If I take the "back" option it asks which SCSI driver to load. The laptop has
no SCSI interface.
I have eliminated the posibility of bad media by testing on desktop machines
where the cd boots without a problem.
Previous versions of MD have not had this problem. The current RH beta has
the same problem and I am wondering if this is a byproduct of both distros
switching to isolinux?
Chuck Davis
